> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kalarislabs.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# open-notebook — AI agent skill for literature review

> Self-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis.

# `open-notebook`

> Self-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.

**Category:** [literature-review](/skills#literature-review) · **License:** MIT · **Version:** 1.3

## Install

```bash theme={null}
npx research-agent-skills install open-notebook
npx skills add KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills --skill open-notebook
```

## When to use it

Self-hosted, open-source alternative to Google NotebookLM for AI-powered research and document analysis. Use when organizing research materials into notebooks, ingesting diverse content sources (PDFs, videos, audio, web pages, Office documents), generating AI-powered notes and summaries, creating multi-speaker podcasts from research, chatting with documents using context-aware AI, searching across materials with full-text and vector search, or running custom content transformations. Supports 16+ AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Groq, and Mistral with complete data privacy through self-hosting.

## Full playbook

Read [SKILL.md](https://github.com/KalarisLabs/research-agent-skills/blob/main/skills/open-notebook/SKILL.md) for the complete workflow, references and any scripts. The agent installer copies the full skill folder.